Of course the rich are getting tested first. The wealthy always do better during a pandemic.
By
Roxanne Roberts
March 19, 2020 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
The rich are not different. They can get sick and die. Just like the rest of us.
But they have more options, and one of those options is to throw money at the coronavirus.
So they’re fleeing to their country homes. Chartering private jets. Putting their doctors on speed dial and getting home visits. They have pantries full of food and toilet paper. None of these is a guarantee against contracting a deadly disease, but it reduces their exposure and allows them to get treatment sooner.
It’s been this way throughout history. The rich have always fared better during a public health crisis. The poor are exposed at greater rates, get sicker because often they aren’t as healthy to begin with and have higher mortality rates.
“The wealthy have often done better than the poor when faced with epidemics and pandemics because they tend to be resilient as a function of having greater resources,” says Richard Keller, a professor of medical history and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
So it was, so it is, so it always will be. When President Trump was asked Wednesday why athletes and other well-connected people are getting tested before everyone else, he said, “Perhaps that’s been the story of life.”
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Piece of shit.
he lied but I believe he has the virus. The story of life????, what an arrogant asshole.